CalArts Events

Choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener combine technological and human pathways into a dynamic work that imagines an Artificial Intelligence lovingly programmed by experimental dance. Read more...

For the first time since its creation in 1979, For Whose Entertainment by renowned filmmaker, artist, and educator Ben Caldwell has its first public screening. Read more...

Queer performance artist Jibz Cameron, best known for her multimedia alter ego Dynasty Handbag, returns to REDCAT for an evening of performance, film, and readings celebrating the debut of her memoir. Read more...

Each year, the School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by students in its four programs—a culmination of hard work, experimentation, and dedication throughout the year. Read more...

This program presents a glimpse into the wild and varied work of the graduating class of CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program, featuring the incredible range of experimentation that characterizes the literary accomplishment of students in the program. Come celebrate the grit and imagination of the class of 2026! 

Meet the next generation of dance artists as The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance presents the choreographic and performance achievements of its 2026 undergraduate class. Read more...

Fusing memoir, concert, and cabaret, Jodie Landau takes up stories of his life in a personal exploration of love, sex, gender, and family through opera. Read more...

GRAMMY-nominated orchestral collective Wild Up presents The Interior Castle, an evening of ecstatic and contemplative music by visionary women, most of them cloistered, who span centuries of artistic and spiritual inquiry. Read more...

The Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theater Company Production of RHEOLOGY

In RHEOLOGY Obie Winner Shayok Misha Chowdhury joins forces with his physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty. Read more...

PARTCH Ensemble—the Grammy Award-winning ensemble specializing in the music of the iconoclastic composer Harry Partch—debuts newly constructed, custom-built replicas of instruments designed by Partch in their annual survey of his music. Read more...